FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Tuesday, September 16, 2008 |
CONTACT:
HRSA PRESS OFFICE
301-443-3376 |
HRSA Awards $3.2 Million to Boost Organ Donation
HRSA has announced $3.2 million in grants to help identify effective strategies for increasing organ donation.
The funds are awarded under four grant programs funded by HRSA's Healthcare Systems Bureau, Division of Transplantation:
- The Social and Behavioral Interventions to Increase Organ and Tissue Donation program ($1,183,287) is designed to improve understanding of ways to increase organ and tissue donation. The grants include evaluation components to measure their effectiveness.
- The Clinical Interventions to Increase Organ Procurement program ($1,112,901) supports promising strategies that can serve as model interventions to identify appropriate donation candidates, evaluate donated organs, maintain donor stability and optimize methods of organ procurement.
- The Public Education Efforts to Increase Solid Organ Donation program ($662,830) educates the public about the need for donation and encourages positive donation decisions and documentation.
- The State Donor Registry Support program ($263,027) promotes the establishment of donor registries in all states and helps existing statewide registries improve the registry's ability to obtain, store and make donation wishes available on a round-the-clock basis at the time of a registrant's death.
"With close to 100,000 Americans now on the national waiting list for organs, we have to keep identifying and funding programs that help increase the number of donors," said HRSA Administrator Elizabeth M. Duke. HRSA has Federal oversight of the nation's transplantation program. A list of grant awards is attached.
For more information about HRSA's organ and tissue donation and transplantation programs, visit www.organdonor.gov
Organization |
City |
State |
Award |
Social and Behavioral Interventions |
Washington University |
St. Louis |
Mo. |
$349,641 |
University of Pittsburgh |
Pittsburgh |
Pa. |
$240,625 |
Virginia Commonwealth University |
Richmond |
Va. |
$593,021 |
Subtotal: |
|
|
$1,183,287 |
Clinical Interventions |
University of California |
San Francisco |
Calif. |
$272,549 |
Columbia University |
New York |
N.Y. |
$246,362 |
University of Pittsburgh |
Pittsburgh |
Pa. |
$349,910 |
University of Texas Health Science Center |
Houston |
Texas |
$244,080 |
Subtotal: |
|
|
$1,112,901 |
Public Education Efforts to Increase Solid Organ Donation |
Claremont Graduate University |
Claremont |
Calif. |
$342,021 |
New York Alliance for Donation, Inc. |
East Greenbush |
N.Y. |
$320,809 |
Subtotal: |
|
|
$662,830 |
State Donor Registry Support |
Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles |
Boston |
Mass. |
$44,873 |
New Mexico Taxation and Revenue Dept. - Motor Vehicle Division |
Santa Fe |
N.M. |
$113,154 |
Wisconsin Dept. of Health & Family Services |
Madison |
Wis. |
$105,000 |
Subtotal: |
|
|
$263,027 |
TOTAL: |
|
|
$3,222,045 |
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), part of the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services, is the primary Federal agency for improving access to health care services for people who are uninsured, isolated, or medically vulnerable. For more information, visit www.hrsa.gov.
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